There seems to be a wide range of opinion as to how best to dirty up a race car or to weather one out. Since dirt and climate and overall environmental conditions vary so much around the country, anything goes really and I just appreciate the attempts we all make at it occasionally. Let's post our attempts here and see what we've got! Should be fun!
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Man, I like each and every one. You show heavy clay, gumbo and dusty/dry slick weathering and it all looks just right to me. I like the Buick the best, don't know why but I just REALLY like that one. All this makes me want to build more early coupes and sedans. Good work here, I would put any one of those on my shelf and be proud!! Here is one although it is not in running condition---more like abandoned.
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Nice weather jobs on both us them
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My first attempt at racing damage
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Nice weathering on all of the models posted. I haven't tried this yet, I build em like the first night at the track. If I ever get this mastered maybe I'll try weathering sometime.
Bob
:) Yes Bob, I am a first nighter too.
Joe, the Zerex 7 is great. Just enough to be realistic.
weathered and raced look ?
both of these car's ( #99 and #7) I built over 30 years ago when I first go back into building model car's and truck's
heading into turn #3 this is going to be close but then again "rubbin is racin" right ?
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this has been up on those poles a good 25 to 30 years , so i guess a little rust is ok ?I'v sanded most of the rust off this car . it lookes alot better now with some of the rust taken away
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the next 2 (#3 and #75) look as tho they just pulled into the pits after a 20 lap A main race
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just pulled this one out from behind the race shop gonna put a for sale sign on her.....lol let's do this !!!
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:) Guys, all of these are outstanding.
Lot of work in all of these!!
WOW These are awesome lookin guys!!
Quote from: David Bogard on February 03, 2018, 09:28:37 AM
the car up on the Speedway sign is genius! I can't tell you how many times have I seen that in my lifetime but I never thought of making a model out of one. Just fabulous!!!
thats the same thing I said the first time I seen a model used as a race track sign David .... just fabulous !! as a kid growing up going to race tracks every weekend I know Iv seen a few old race cars up on poles being used at speed shops and race tracks across our great country . I know farmington Mo. used an old sprint car as their race track entrance , in Vineland NJ they used a HennyJ , there's a model of this on facebook that was going around the last couple of weeks sorry I cant think of the builders name , I would like to put this out there that this be our first CBP build , speedway entrances signs using a model up on poles ! using 2 5/16 wooden dowel and a piece of 3"x 3' styrene as the sign . I used some form that sign shops use to carve out the rocks and help hold up the poles , a company was giving away 2' x2' piece of form that I got off the web. sorry again I can't think of that company's name or where i got the form ,
how bout it for our first CBP ? we dont have build out the cockpit or engine just the body/frame tires/wheels 2 poles and a 3" x 3" piece of styrene and some sort base is al we need to build this CBP
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Did someone say weathered?
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:) Terrific. The first thing everyone does is put on fancy wheels.
Man Oh MAN...ALL of these weather'd builds look GREAT!!!
Here's one that's "Back'in it in"....between 3 and 4......
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Sitting in the pits waiting to be scraped off...
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Gary....
Like these 2 pics "on track" and "back in the pits"
But.....what would it look like after wheel packing before any hot laps started??
If it would have been Ascot, it wouldn't look so "clean".... ;D ;D
have to figure out a way to scan a pic from a 1983 CRA pic at Ascot of head on view of a couple of cars after wheel packing....from that angle cannot see any car #'s :D
though, think on a model that would be "overkill" big time....!! ::) :o ;D ;D
Pack'in the track is a slow muddy job( Dirt tracks are that way..aren't they... :o)...and it don't smell good either. I've been in a push truck...a push jeep w/top on( thankful for that)..Tow trucks out there in the mud just a Pack'in. Also.. Slid'in sideways in the turns going ...well...let's see...about 2mph...LOL.. Getting completely sideways is a trip. Specially in a short wheel base rig. I imagine almost ALL of us on here have experienced that thing called Pack'in the track. I've packed in a hobby stock and claimer class cars. I've never done it in an open wheel car. But....I certainly had to scrape them off before time trials and heat races. By the time the main events are up...they're pretty dry.
Now that's what I'm talk'in about right there. Dirt ALL over(MUD---Race'in clay). That stuff stinks. I've seen an open top truck pack'in with 3 people inside...man..oh man...everything was covered...including them. One was a knocked out looking blonde too!!! Hmmmm..I wonder if her hair color had anything to do with her being in that pack truck? ::) They were having fun though. Smiling and waving at everybody...LOL
Yep, that pic is how the sprints looked after early rounds of wheel packing....
Back here, one track uses a TerraGator (designed for spraying crops in the fields) helps out wheel packing....
One night he "forgot to signal" that he was exiting the track at the track entrance and a pick-up came out of the turn and slid into him.....tow truck had to pull the fender out so the driver could drive away...
I love Leftturns diorama with the '41 Plymouth. Those old Flathead sixbangers could be made to run on a short dirt oval. There were a couple of them running here back in the day. The rules out here allowed Flathead six engines to run any carburetion, and a high compression head. That coupled with a Chrysler gray marine crankshaft, and a high lift cam, could make them pretty quick in short bursts. And they sounded absolutely evil.
Olderndirt
Like them all, however that speedway sign is awesome.